COMPLICATIONS:Arrogance: Titania's enhancements have made her supremely confident in power which can be exploitedHatred: She-HulkInferiority Complex: Being picked on all her life and being dreadfully insecure as Skeeter, having that brought up causes a -2 circumstance bonus for her to resist Deception/Taunt attempts against herNormal Identity: She has a normal identity of Mary "Skeeter" McPheran without her powers, and if they are removed, her stats change to STR 2, STA 2, PRE 0, Relationships: She's married to Crusher Creel, the Absorbing Man

Comments: Titania is She-Hulk's archenemy and a fine brick to throw at your heroes. With her mix of power and hotness (at least me and Absorbing Man think so), she can take a group of PL10 heroes off their game pretty quick.

Clean Up 2/14/13: Titania gets a reworking to pump her up to PL12.

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COMPLICATIONS:Bitch: While Emma has fully embraced her role as a force of good in the mutant community, she can still be abrasive and elitist and ALWAYS tells it like it isPower Loss: She cannot use her Telepathy when in her Diamond FormPrejudice: MutantRelationships: Scott Summers, The Stepford Cuckoos, some favored students including HellionReputation: Former White Queen of the Hellfire ClubRivalry: With Jean Grey, any other White Queen of The Hellfire ClubSecret: She’s still got quite a few from her earlier days that she would prefer remain tucked away

Comments: I loves me some Emma Frost. Scott may be the leader and other characters like Beast and Nightcrawler may represent the heart of the mutant community, but Emma represents one of the most important parts of the mutant race: it’s BALLS. Despite her gender, she's got the biggest set in the X-Men, even more than Logan. Why?

Who else could manipulate so many as a villain before and now a reformed (sorta) hero, including the master manipulator himself, Norman Osborn? Who else would be waiting for the frickin’ Phoenix to come back so she can take another shot at her? And who else would not only tell Stark to piss off during the Civil War, but when Ms. Marvel came back to try to sway her again, she dropped wickedly graphic illusions of M-Day and the former X-Student bus that got blown up by the Purifiers into her head? My girl, Emma, that’s who. Love her or hate her, you can’t ignore her.

I went the same route BARON did of not making her Diamond Form an AE since I thought he made a great case as to why it shouldn’t be. That made it tougher to fit her into the 15/pts a rank frame, but I think she came out OK. And getting this one out of the way will make Professor X, Jean and others a lot easier to stat up.

b]Secret Origins:[/b] Emma Grace Frost grew up in the rich neighborhood of Snow Valley, Massachusetts as the daughter of a wealthy, albeit abusive father. She developed her powers while under pressure from her father to succeed. Emma blackmailed her father after he got a professor who she was romantically linked with fired. Despite her father being upset, he decided she was smart and offered her to take over the family business, but Emma declined preffering to make her fortune herself. Emma left her family and joined the radical mutant group, the Hellfire Club. After spending a stint as the “White Queen,” she later defected to the X-Men to lead the team.

The Story so Far: Her first era presented her as a leader in the Hellfire Club, but this ended when the manic time traveler Fitzroy appeared from the future, resulting in the deaths of many of her Hellions and putting Emma into a coma. Her involvement in the Phalanx Covenant led her to becoming co-teacher of the new Generation X team with Banshee. Later, when the Sentinels devastated Genosha she gained a new power - her diamond form.

She became Cyclops' new partner and lover, and a co-leader of the X-Men. Currently she is helping run the Jean Grey school along with Professor Xavier and Wolverine while Scott leads the Justice League.

Characterization: Known for her telepathic mastery, biting wit and revealing outfits, Emma Frost has transitioned from one of the X-Men's deadliest foes into a central figure on the side of the mutants.

Friends and Foes: She has been in a long relationship with Scott Summers and although they are currently not dating, they have been in contact several times recently, prompting Kitty to tell her to “just go get him, get married and be done with it”.

She has a motherly relationship with the Stepford Cuckoos and has struck up an unlikely friendship with Hawkgirl, who is “secretly” trying to get her and Scott back together. She has a long rivalry with the former Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, Selene, as well as other former and current members of the Club.

Clean Up 4/22/12: Emma gets a good review after I went through the Mental Powers Power Profile. Much cleaner array.

Clean Up 6/8/12: Emma goes down to PL12 as I continue to adjust for DCA power levels.

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COMPLICATIONS:Accident: Her mood can sometimes cause her weather control powers to go out of controlPhobia: She has a severe case of claustrophobiaPrejudice: MutantResponsibility: Her husband, T'Challa (The Black Panther), Jean Grey, several other X-Men teammatesResponsibility: To Wakanda and to the mutant race

Comments: Storm is always a fun build to see if you can fir her myriad of powers and skills in a reasonable point format. I feel pretty good about this one, although looking at it, I can see where I might make changes in the future.

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COMPLICATIONS:Motivation: Justice and protecting the worldRelationships: She is close to her adopted brother, Supreme, and their dog RadarRivalry: She and Mary Marvel have a bit of a rivalryVulnerable: Suprema is vulnerable to White Supremium, and can be affected in other ways by other colors of Supremium much like Kryptonians are affected by KryptoniteWoman out of Time: Suprema has very old school values and she sometimes seems to be out of touch with the modern world

Comments: Suprema is Supreme’s adopted sister who was granted the same powers as him, albeit at slightly lower level. From the little I’ve seen of her in the Youngblood second series, she’s about Supergirl level, so that’s where I built her.

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Comments: Malice is a long time Marauder that exists as an incorporeal entity who takes over other bodies for pretty much as long as she wants until they are able to save. Some people can do it fast, both for Polaris and Omega Sentinel, the possession went on for weeks, so either they rolled REALLY bad on their saves, it was no save, or pure Continuous, which I would hate to really use in game for something like that. So we’ll make it short term possessions like Deadman for now.

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LADIES' NIGHT kicks back up with a new item for our Game of Thrones line!

Cersei Lannister: You should have taken the realm for yourself. Jaime told me about the day King's Landing fell. He was sitting on the Iron Throne and you made him give it up. All you needed to do was climb those steps yourself. Such a sad mistake. Eddard Stark: I've made many mistakes in my life, but that wasn't one of them. Cersei Lannister: Oh but it was. When you play the game of thrones you win, or you die. There is no middle ground.

COMPLICATIONS:Bitch: She can hide it sometimes, but most of the time she comes off as bitter and spitefulEnemy: The StarksFame: As Queen Regent and daughter of Tywin Lannister, she is well-known throughout the Seven KingdomsMotivation: PowerRelationships: She has been in love with and sleeping with her twin brother Jaime for years. She also loves her children, especially her daughter, MyrcellaResponsibility: To the Lannister name and legacy, to her children and the crownRivalry: She blames her brother Tyrion for her mother's death and for arranging her daughter to marry in another kingdom and she is wants to hurt himSecret: Her relationship with Jaime and her children's true heritage

Comments: The best bitch character on TV right now IMHO, Cersei Lannister, played by the wonderful Lena Heady, who also played a nicer medieval bitch in 300 as Leonidas’ wife Gorgo. And she played Sara Conner on the Terminator TV series, and she was kind of a bitch, too. Huh. The poor woman might be getting typecast…

Anyway, Cersei is an unlikable but great character in the series. She was in a marriage of convenience with King Robert but sleeping with her brother Jaime all the time. She immediately lets you know that she sees herself as better than everyone and is obviously running things behind the scenes. Once Robert passes, it becomes even more apparent as she sees to it that Joffrey ascends to the throne despite the rumors (and actual truth) about his parentage.

Now that her son Joffrey is on the Throne, she has been doing her best to keep him looking good, but Joffrey’s impulsiveness and vicious streak keep undoing her, and Tyrion’s, attempts at damage control. She still as her finger on the pulse of things, even advising Tyrion of things he doesn’t know and has many under the table deals going on to cement her, and other I suppose, Joffrey’s power. And man, does she have an axe to grind with her little brother. She blames Tyrion for her mother’s death and once Tyrion arranges for her daughter to be wed to another high family in Dore, she REALLY has it in for him as she doesn’t want her daughter to be used like she was in being forced to marry Robert. And she doesn’t want her daughter to leave, even though Tyrion knew she would be safer out of King’s Landing as the War of the Five Kings comes closer to their doorstep, as she truly loves her. Showed she truly does have a hear underneath all that bitchiness and treachery.

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COMPLICATIONS:Man out of Time: Coming from a different Earth, she sometimes struggles to find her way on this oneRelationships: She sees Steve Rogers as a father figure, she is best friends with Spider-Girl/Arana

Comments: Rikki Barnes, from the pocket Heroes Reborn universe is the current Nomad in Marvel now. She been getting some good run in the back pages of Captain America, which set her up to star in Young Allies, with Arana (now Spider-Girl and coming up next), a new Toro, and long time Nova/Spidey-teen-angst-hero-analogue Gravity.

While her Vibranium stuff doesn’t work now in the main Marvel continuity, it does in the Thorpacoverse, she functions more like her original introduction into the main Marvel U. In the Thorpacoverse, she is part of the Initiative at the behest of Steve and Bucky, even though she still takes off on her own sometimes for her own adventures.

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COMPLICATIONS:Enemy: The Sisterhood of The WaspPower Loss: If she loses her powers, her stats drop to STR 2, STA 2, AGL 4Relationships: She is best friends with Rikki Barnes/Nomad and his being mentoring by Arachne and Spider-ManSecret Identity: She tries to maintain her secret identity of Anya Corazon, high school student

Comments: As part of the thinning of the herd of Spider-people in the Grim Hunt, Anya Corazon here, who had Spidey type powers as Arana, had them stripped and how she fights crime as a non-powered young superhero. She originally wanted to stick with Arana, but decided to give in and take on the identity of Spider-Girl (which was smart on her part since it got her a new book).

Not really knowing how much she’s been trained, but knowing how plucky she is, I stuck with a PL8 and make her a stick and move type fighter. She’s only a PL5 unarmed offensively, but with her bola, she’s a solid PL7 and defensively she’s PL8 with her dodge defense, since even before her powers were awakened, she is very quick and was a well trained gymnast. I think she and Rikki would be a fun combo for a street level team game. Give them a brick to set up and they could do some serious damage.

Clean Up 6/8/12: Reworked Anya to her current re-powered version.

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Arana received some on the job Training as Ms. Marvel's sidekick for the first chunk of the Civil War. Training on tactics and whatnot, she was their when Ms. Marvel she took down Julia Carpenter Spider Woman/Arachne. She should totally have some skill ranks to show her experience in the Fast Food industry. She worked at Chicken Cow for a while.

"When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry." - Quellcrist Falconer

Comments: Riza Hawkeye is Roy Mustang’s right-hand woman and a badass in her own right in the FMA setting. Considering that I would have most soldiers in that setting at PL4, maybe PL5 for the more experienced ones, she’s head and shoulders above them. And she can hang with the homunculi for a little while, as she has shown in the series. But her main role is looking for Roy and keeping him on the right path.

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COMPLICATIONS:Bitch: Kate is loyal, but very blunt and takes no crap from anyone…especially PatriotRelationships: Her teammates, especially StatureRivalry: With Patriot, even though it appears they did each other…kids…

Comments: I really like the original Young Avengers books and I thought Kate and Eli’s obviously driven by sexual tension play was wonderfully written. Kate herself is a street level type bad ass and I almost went the Reflex Memory route since the Marvel Wikis and other books have reference it, but I just went with straight melee and bow mastery advantages and skills.

And that's it for this LADIES' NIGHT. More Young Avengers builds are coming up as I have time this week. I didn't get Cassie done in time for this LADIES' NIGHT run, so she'll be in the mix with the others. I've also got some more X-Verse builds on tap and then I'm going to mix in some villains before I start some playtesting.

I did a couple of short ones with my PL10 PC Daredevil against Jabroni's Bantam and Gamecock and it's not even worth posting. DD got his arse handed to him, sadly enough, so I am fixing him and then I am in the middle of a Gambit vs. Black Manta test that I will probably post once I take time from building to finish it. He rolled over the Manta Men, but he's not faring well against Manta.

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Thorpacolypse wrote: As a build, I almost made her a PL11, but I am trying to keep the Titans, Young Avengers, Young X-Men/X-Students, The Runaways and Gen-13 all between PL8 to 10, with most of them being PL9, which is where I generally like to place teen heroes.

Nice to know you'll be getting to the Runaways eventually.

Thorpacolypse wrote:I've also got some more X-Verse builds on tap and then I'm going to mix in some villains before I start some playtesting.

I did a couple of short ones with my PL10 PC Daredevil against Jabroni's Bantam and Gamecock and it's not even worth posting. DD got his arse handed to him, sadly enough, so I am fixing him and then I am in the middle of a Gambit vs. Black Manta test that I will probably post once I take time from building to finish it. He rolled over the Manta Men, but he's not faring well against Manta.

ClassDunce wrote:Arana received some on the job Training as Ms. Marvel's sidekick for the first chunk of the Civil War. Training on tactics and whatnot, she was their when Ms. Marvel she took down Julia Carpenter Spider Woman/Arachne. She should totally have some skill ranks to show her experience in the Fast Food industry. She worked at Chicken Cow for a while.

I can totally work in that fast food expertise. Having worked fast food as a teenager, that's something you just don't forget.

cassius335 wrote:

Thorpacolypse wrote: As a build, I almost made her a PL11, but I am trying to keep the Titans, Young Avengers, Young X-Men/X-Students, The Runaways and Gen-13 all between PL8 to 10, with most of them being PL9, which is where I generally like to place teen heroes.

Nice to know you'll be getting to the Runaways eventually.

Thorpacolypse wrote:I've also got some more X-Verse builds on tap and then I'm going to mix in some villains before I start some playtesting.

I did a couple of short ones with my PL10 PC Daredevil against Jabroni's Bantam and Gamecock and it's not even worth posting. DD got his arse handed to him, sadly enough, so I am fixing him and then I am in the middle of a Gambit vs. Black Manta test that I will probably post once I take time from building to finish it. He rolled over the Manta Men, but he's not faring well against Manta.

I have only read a little of The Runaways, but the oldest Little Thorpacolypse is starting to get into comics (and I had NOTHING to do with that... ) and he likes teen character stuff so I am going to get myself, er, him, some Runaways trades to read shortly.

I am really bad about actually getting around to playtests, but if I actually follow through, I can try to work that in. However, I don't have Knight and Squire builds. Well, yet, anyway. Doesn't mean I won't, of course...

COMPLICATIONS:Ego: Eli can be a bit cocky at times which can put him and his teammates at riskIdentity: He tries to maintain his secret identity of Elijah BradleyLegacy: He tries to live up to the legacy of his super soldier family; his grandfather, Isaiah Bradley, the Black Captain America and his uncle Josiah XRelationships: His grandparents and his teammatesRivalry: With Hawkeye II, even though it appears they did each other…kids…

COMPLICATIONS:Motivation: Avoiding his future of becoming Kang The ConquerorRelationships: He cannot stay in this timeline very long without effecting the time streamRelationships: He is in love with Stature and still close to his original Young Avengers teammates

Comments: As I said earlier, I really like the original run of Young Avengers and Iron Lad here was the root of all the mayhem. He is actually a young version of Nathaniel Richards, alias Kang the Conqueror, who was rescued from a life threatening injury by his future self who took him around the timestream to show him who he would become. He didn’t like it, so like any normal teen, he rebelled by swiping his armor and trying to go back in time to find the Avengers, who he realized were the only ones who could stop Kang. He came back during Avengers: Disassembled however and ending up having to find the kids that were part of the Avengers Failsafe program housed in The Vision, hence, he started the Young Avengers. Sadly, he had to leave this time because his presence was messing up the timestream, but he pops up from time to time (no pun intended) as a plot device for his young friends’ adventures.

His armor rocks, with a Neurokinetic adaptation ability and the usual battlesuit capabilities in addition to his time travel abilities. He’s a character that would have to be GM’d very carefully as he could be a game breaker, but personally, I am trying to lighten up my restrictions of variable powers since I have found that anything can always be worked around if need be.

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